Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kan Ito

Tomishige Taguchi

Atsushi Inagaki

Hiroyuki Kawahara

Shozo Endo

Mizuki Muramatsu

Yoshito Haba

Ichiko Miyasaka

An image processing apparatus comprises an image obtaining unit that obtains a captured image, an information obtaining unit that obtains analysis data recorded in correspondence with the captured image and including flag information indicating whether an object present in the captured image is a masking target, a detecting unit that detects objects from the captured image, and a mask processing unit that generates an image in which an object, among the objects detected from the captured image, which is indicated as the masking target by the flag information, is masked.

Image processing apparatus, image providing apparatus,control methods thereof, and medium

Anonymization processing for protecting privacy and personal information can be appropriately performed based on a detection state of a moving object within an imaging range. Processing corresponding to one of a first mode for anonymizing an area of a human body based on a fixed background image and a second mode for anonymizing the area of the human body based on a basic background image is performed on an area of a detected moving object based on a detection result of a moving object detection unit.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

An image reading out apparatus reads out a partial image in a frame of an image within an image sensing unit, and outputs image data corresponding to the frame of the image and the partial image to an image development processing unit. A detection unit detects an object in a frame of a first image read out from the image sensing unit, and detects a moving speed of the object. A control unit (i) determines an area corresponding to the object, and (ii) controls, in accordance with the moving speed of the object detected by the detection unit, an interval of time to read out the partial image in the area in a frame of a second image within the image sensing unit. A reading unit reads out the frame of the first image and the partial image within the image sensing unit.

Image reading out control apparatus, image reading out control method thereof, and storage medium

An image matching system in which an imaging apparatus configured to capture an image and a storage unit configured to store matching information are connected to each other via a network and the imaging apparatus performs matching between the matching information and the captured image includes a selection unit configured to select, from among the matching information stored in the storage unit, matching information corresponding to predetermined time, and an updating unit configured to update the matching information to be used by the imaging apparatus to perform matching with the captured image with the matching information selected by the selection unit.

Image matching system, providing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image matching method, and program

A method for processing information in an adapter device for an imaging apparatus includes acquiring user identification information registered in the imaging apparatus connected to the adapter device, acquiring user identification information of a person identification reference database stored in a storage medium inserted in the adapter device, determining whether the user identification information acquired from the imaging apparatus corresponds to the user identification information acquired from the person identification reference database, determining whether a person registered in the person identification reference database is included in an image acquired by the imaging apparatus when it is determined that the pieces of the user identification information correspond to each other, and recording personal information of the person stored in the person identification reference database in attribute information of the image when it is determined that the person registered in the person identification reference database is included in the image acquired by the imaging apparatus.

Imaging apparatus, adapter device thererof, and information processing method

An information processing apparatus configured to connected via a network to a one or a plurality of remote apparatuses each of which processes information. The information processing apparatus includes a detection unit for detecting that an imaging apparatus is connected thereto, a determination unit for determining, according to processing to be performed on media data photographed by the imaging apparatus, whether the processing is performed by the information processing apparatus, an execution instruction unit for issuing, when the determination unit determines that the processing is not performed by the information processing apparatus, an execution instruction to the remote apparatus capable of performing the processing to perform the processing on the media data, and a media data receiving unit for receiving from the remote apparatus to which the execution instruction is issued, the media data on which the processing is performed.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

Media data, which includes an image file recorded on a disk recording medium of a connected image sensing apparatus, management information including the recording position of the image file on the disk recording medium, and backup information of the management information, is received from the image sensing apparatus. Finalize processing of the disk recording medium is virtually executed using the received media data, and a generated disk image is stored on a memory. In response to a request from a data receiving terminal, the media data of the virtual disk image on the memory is transmitted to the data receiving terminal via a communication unit.

Adapter apparatus and control method thereof, and computer program

A video input apparatus and image pickup system having a camera section having a camera unit, and a video processing section for processing an image signal from the camera section so as to supply to a host terminal. The camera section outputs a multiplexed signal on which synchronizing signals of an image signal are multiplexed on the image signal, to the video processing section through a cable. The video processing section separates the image signal and the synchronizing signals from the multiplexed signal and processes the image signal to output a video signal. The camera unit in the camera section is exchangeable, and the video processing section detects the type of the camera unit based on the separated synchronizing signals and processes the image signal in accordance with the detected type of the camera unit.

Video input apparatus and image pickup system including the apparatus

An image processing apparatus includes a pick-up for picking-up a subject, temporal storage for temporarily storing sets of image information picked up by the pick-up during predetermined time periods, and a display for displaying the stored sets of image information and image information from the pick-up. A subject views the display during image pick-up. Also included is a control that causes temporal storage to store the sets of image information corresponding to the same subject picked up by the pick-up during the predetermined time periods, and causes display of the sets of image information corresponding to the same subject and stored in temporal storage discriminatively from the image information from the pick-up. At least one of the sets of image information is selected corresponding to the same subject in temporal storage.

Image processing system

An image processing system comprises input means for inputting an image information, storage means for storing the image information input from said input means, display means for displaying the image information input from said input means and the image information stored in said storage means, changeover means for switching between the display of the image information from said input means and that of the image information from said storage means, and output means for outputting the image information stored in said storage means.

An image sensing system, including visual telephone and teleconference terminals, connected via a network. Each terminal has a video camera placed on a pan head, and can display a video image sensed by the video camera connected to the terminal and a video image sensed by a video camera of a communication-destination terminal, on a monitor connected to the terminal. Each terminal detects whether or not the video camera is placed on the remote-controllable pan head, and mutually transmits the result of detection to its communication-destination terminal. At each terminal, if the direction of the video camera can be controlled by the pan head, a pan-head control panel is displayed with the video image from the video camera, on the monitor. Further, if the video camera of the communication-destination terminal is placed on a remote-controllable pan head, a pan-head control panel for the pan head of the communication-destination terminal is displayed with the video image from the communication-destination terminal, on the monitor.

Image-sensing control method and apparatus, image sensing system, and

An image processing system is capable of displaying, storing and printing an image from either of two video inputs. When one video input is selected, a real-time video image of a subject is displayed on a monitor. When a shutter-button is pushed, a still-frame image of the subject is displayed on the monitor and stored in a memory. A print out of the stored image can be requested following confirmation of the quality and desirability of the stored image.

Image processing system having a selector for selecting a picked-up

The present invention aims to facilitate the maintenance inspection for the communications terminal and the communications system. A fault detection unit 24 monitors the communication line and each terminal unit, and upon detecting a malfunction, the fault information is immediately output to a fault information recording unit 26. The fault information recording unit 26 stores and records fault information from the fault detection unit 24. It operates to only record the fault conditions on the fault information recording unit 26 in the case of the slight fault, or record the fault conditions on the fault information recording unit 26 and automatically call the preregistered service office to notify its fault conditions in the case of the heavy fault which may hinder the television conference in performance. The fault information recording unit 26 automatically calls the registered service office periodically, e.g., once a week, to notify the fault information recorded after the previous call. When making the television conference between three or more points, the multi-point connection control unit 60 is also provided with a fault detecting unit and a fault information recording unit.

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Kan Ito